Trump can widen his base specifically because he is not a conservative with core principles. He is a salesman and a damn good one but if elected I suspect the tingling in conservative legs will give way to urine rather quickly.
We need JOBS.
NOBODY can win without a thriving economy. NOBODY.
THAT is the bottom line.
If Trump can start the machine that destroys political correctness or multiculturalism then I am all in. I see him as a stepping stone.
He is taking to the elitests hard. Did you see what he said about CEO pay? Think it through, have you ever been perplexed that so many large corporations that are based here in the USA support liberals who want to ultimately destroy this country? Why is that?
Trump is not owned by anyone that I can tell. He is obviously not socially conservative but he knows how to make things work.
I’m curious to see if he panders to the left after winning the primaries.
No, our conservative legs are not tingling. We see Donald Trump clearly, we know there are a number of issues that he is at odds with us, and that he is going to do some things we are not going to like very much. We are not blind and we are not sheeple. The GOP leadership is making an enemy of Donald Trump, if he triumphs that will be the end of them. And that is worth a great deal, that enfranchises all of us in the future! And Donald Trump is addressing another very important issue, and that is that we need to stop this massive invasion of illegals. The other issues dear to our hearts can wait a little bit, we need to deal with this first! (Of course we also need to deal with the spiritual corruption of our nation as well, but certainly there is nothing stopping us from being on our knees in prayer, before God.)
At least he will be the conservatives choice of a liberal.hahaha
Trump is above all a pragmatist and a good dealmaker - someone who will get more than half a loaf for his side.
Unlike the current occupant he also seem to have basic traditional American values, so I feel somewhat confident that he would steer this ship back toward the right direction.
How conservative will it turn out to be if Trump goes down in flames, causing a lot of people who are sick and tired of the status quo to stay home, thereby guaranteeing another Dem victory over another milquetoast GOPe nominee...and then we get an amnesty (de facto, if not de jure) and the electorate turns into a permanent Dem majority? Not very, IMHO.
Win with Trump, and therefore on immigration, while letting some other issues that we care about go on the back burner...
vs.
...lose with someone else, and therefore on immigration, AND THEREFORE ON LITERALLY EVERY OTHER ISSUE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE.
I’ll take Door #1. It isn’t the ideal, but we are very, very close to a breakpoint in this nation. The Dems set us up for this in 1965 with the Kennedy immigration bill, and now that seed is about to produce a bumper crop of poisonous fruit for this nation.